re: "Jam bands" - Who puts out the best studio albums?

MMW, Galactic, Greyboy Allstars (and their side projects), Gov’t Mule, Ray’s Music Exchange, Lake Trout (when they were still a jam band), Deep Banana Blackout, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, The Slip, Schleigho. Strangefolk had some decent albums but they weren’t the jammiest of jam bands.

If you want to include jam bands that were around before the term jam bands was around like the Dead (if you want studio jams then go with Blues for Allah) then you should also include Frank Zappa and King Crimson.

Zero was pretty good. KVHW was better, they were awesome, but they never recorded in the studio. Many of their live bootlegs sound better than some bands’ studio albums.